IBook G4 cursor disappears after two minutes.

On a early 2004 G4 iBook (1.2 ghz) the cursor disappears two minutes after booting. I have enought time to do one disc utility repair before the cursor vanishes. The reults of the repair were minor permissions repairs to library items. Booted with battery only and with A/C, but get same results.

You have the original installation and restore discs? These would be Mac OS X 10.3.x (most often 10.3.5).
You don't have the installation disc for Mac OS X 10.4? This is what you would need to attempt a repair of the hard drive.
Have you tried starting up in Safe Mode? This will take quite awhile longer than a normal startup because it does a file check and repair of the hard disk.
You will see your normal desktop. Once completely started up in Safe Mode, restart normally, and go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Click on the top hard drive icon in the left sidebar and note the S.M.A.R.T. status at the bottom right of the pane. What does it say?
Select the named boot volume in the left sidebar ("Macintosh HD" unless you've renamed it). What is the hard drive capacity and how much space remains available on it? Repair permissions on it.
It sounds like there could be a problem with the hard drive. See if a little hard drive maintenance alleviates the problem.

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